From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: "Sachin P. Sant" <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem for kdump
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:15:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215065710.17950.12.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48637594.5040709@in.ibm.com>
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On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:25 +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote:
> This one has been pending for a long time. Somehow never
> made it upstream.
>
> Resending the patch which fixes /dev/oldmem interface for kdump.
>
> Tested with 2.6.26-rc8.
>
> Signed-off-by : Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Even though I wrote this, it was so long ago I can't really vouch for
it. If you've tested it and it works Sachin then we should merge it. Is
this fix in distros or does it not apply?
> Also make sure we're only reading one page or less at a time.
It looks like the generic code ensures that I think, but it can't hurt.
cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-26 10:55 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem for kdump Sachin P. Sant
2008-07-03 6:15 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2008-07-03 6:32 ` Sachin P. Sant
2008-07-03 6:36 ` Michael Ellerman
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